A couple of siblings from Arkansas survived for 3 or 4 days without water in the wreck of the car their mother was driving. The crash killed the mother, but the boys will be ok.
At the beginning of the week, the Ouachita County Sheriff’s Office was alerted that a boy was wandering on a road in Camden, People Crime reports. Officers went down and found him: he had scratches all over his body, seemed in shock and wouldn’t say anything.
They took him to headquarters, washed him and fed him, and posted his picture to social media, in a bid to identify him. Family reached out to say his name was Kylen Holliman, he was 3 and his mother hadn’t been seen in days, after she took off in the family’s car, together with Kylen and his younger brother.
Cops went back to where they found the boy and discovered a wrecked car in a ravine, where it wasn’t visible from the road. A woman’s body was found outside the vehicle: she had been ejected in the crash and was dead. Inside the car, which was on its side, was a 1-year-old boy still strapped in his carseat, alive.
Police managed to offer proper assistance to the baby by the time EMTs arrived, and he will be released soon from the hospital. They don’t suspect foul play in the accident and they’re hailing Kylen as the hero who saved his brother’s life. Somehow, he managed to get out of his carseat after days without food or water, exited the car through the sunroof, and then crawled through bushes until he got on the road.
“If it weren’t for him getting out of the vehicle, it would have been a horrible situation and we probably would be looking at three deaths as a result of that accident,” Nathan Greeley, a Lieutenant with Ouachita’s detective criminal investigation division, says for the publication. “You can imagine, both of them were traumatized. They had one hell of a stay down there.”
“All I can say is, in the 11 years that I’ve been here, I have never seen something so tragic and amazing at the same time,” Greeley adds. “At the end of the day, that boy is the hero who saved his brother.”
They took him to headquarters, washed him and fed him, and posted his picture to social media, in a bid to identify him. Family reached out to say his name was Kylen Holliman, he was 3 and his mother hadn’t been seen in days, after she took off in the family’s car, together with Kylen and his younger brother.
Cops went back to where they found the boy and discovered a wrecked car in a ravine, where it wasn’t visible from the road. A woman’s body was found outside the vehicle: she had been ejected in the crash and was dead. Inside the car, which was on its side, was a 1-year-old boy still strapped in his carseat, alive.
Police managed to offer proper assistance to the baby by the time EMTs arrived, and he will be released soon from the hospital. They don’t suspect foul play in the accident and they’re hailing Kylen as the hero who saved his brother’s life. Somehow, he managed to get out of his carseat after days without food or water, exited the car through the sunroof, and then crawled through bushes until he got on the road.
“If it weren’t for him getting out of the vehicle, it would have been a horrible situation and we probably would be looking at three deaths as a result of that accident,” Nathan Greeley, a Lieutenant with Ouachita’s detective criminal investigation division, says for the publication. “You can imagine, both of them were traumatized. They had one hell of a stay down there.”
“All I can say is, in the 11 years that I’ve been here, I have never seen something so tragic and amazing at the same time,” Greeley adds. “At the end of the day, that boy is the hero who saved his brother.”